Analysis of The Land of Counterpane
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay,
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 11110111 01110111 11110101 001111011 11110101 11001001 01011101 00111101 11010101 11110101 01010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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